PSC - The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center _A_d_d_r_e_s_s: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Mellon Institute Building 4400 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 _E_m_a_i_l: consult@a.psc.edu.sp _P_h_o_n_e: (412) 268-4960 _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), one of the national centers established by the National Science Founda- tion, provides advanced supercomputer resources to the scientific and engineering research communities. PSC pro- vides computing resources and support facilities for work in many branches of science. To date, it has supported work by over 1900 researchers at 375 institutions in 49 states, and the District of Columbia, representing virtually all fields of scientific and engineering endeavor. The Center currently offers: o+ a Cray Y-MP/832 supercomputer which features eight processing units sharing common memory of 32 million 64-bit words o+ a Solid-state Storage Device (SSD) which will hold 128 million words and can transfer data at 156 Mwords per second on each of two parallel channels o+ an IBM 4381-P21 with 30GB of disk storage for CFS, an archiving system o+ a Connection Machine CM-2, with 32,768 processors and one gigabyte of memory _________________________ The information in this section is provided in accor- dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front of this guide. February 14, 1992 NNSC Section 1.9, Page 1 o+ a DataVault with 10 gigabytes of high speed storage o+ a Digital Equipment Corporation VAX, CMVAX, and two SUN 4470s, SUNA and SUNB, running Ultrix and Unix, as front ends to the CM-2 o+ two Digital Equipment Corporation VAXes running VMS as front ends to the Y-MP, CMVAX and SUNs o+ two Digital Equipment Corporation VAXes running Ultrix as front ends to the Y-MP, CMVAX, and SUNs o+ the Andrew File System, a distributed network file system, serving the Ultrix front ends and the CM front ends o+ high-function engineering workstations, personal com- puters, and special-purpose graphics devices, such as a Silicon Graphics IRIS workstation, SUN Sparcstation, IBM RS6000, DECStation 5000, Canon CLC500 color copier/printer, and Postscript laser printers, and o+ CGM-based animation system producing VHS tape and and videodisk animations, plus the ability to produce 35mm color slides using a Matrix Instruments SlideWriter. The Center provides experienced user services and training in scientific research. Consultants are available to answer users' questions Monday through Saturday. The Center offers classes and workshops on different aspects of supercomput- ing, provides online and hardcopy documentation, produces a monthly newsletter and a technical bulletin, and annually publishes a booklet which highlights some of the scientific research done at the Center. The systems and software staff selects and installs new software and spearheads system development efforts. _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s The center is on the Internet. _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _T_h_e _C_e_n_t_e_r Requests for supercomputing services may be made directly to the PSC. February 14, 1992 NNSC Section 1.9, Page 2